Doug Parker 🕸️ on Nostr: Does anyone on here happen to know the motivation or reasoning for why whitespace ...
Does anyone on here happen to know the motivation or reasoning for why whitespace collapsing in #HTML applies to the space character entity ` `?
I get that:
```html
<div>Hello, World!</div>
```
Will collapse down to:
```html
<div>Hello, World!</div>
```
But why does:
```html
<div>Hello,       World!</div>
```
Do the same? I can't imagine any developer who would want that behavior.
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2024-07-14 01:25:45Event JSON
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